Landry Shamet on track to join these unheralded New York sports playoff heroes

Landry Shamet is on an all-time heater, hitting 17 of his last 21 3-point shots in the past six games.But he’s not the first New York role player to turn it on under the brightest of lights.

Here’s a look at some other members of a supporting cast who became stars in the postseason:There were 11 Giants who had more receptions during the 2007 regular season than Tyree, who finished with four catches for 35 yards.He added one more catch in the team’s first three postseason games.

Then, Tyree became a legend at Super Bowl 42, scoring his first touchdown of the season, and later adding an iconic helmet catch to propel the Giants to an upset of the undefeated Patriots.Tyree never caught another pass.The light-hitting shortstop hit less than .250 during the Yankees’ 1977 championship run, and again during the 1978 regular season, but Dent became an all-time Boston villain after delivering a three-run homer in the AL East tiebreaker game, which eventually led the Yankees to a second straight title, with Dent capturing World Series MVP honors against the Dodgers.Rangers fans had little time to become acquainted with Matteau — who was acquired less than a month before the 1994 playoffs began — but the physical wing quickly became known for scoring the most famous goal in team history.

His legacy is defined by his wraparound goal in double overtime of Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals, but Matteau also scored the double-overtime winner in Game 3 against the Devils, finishing with six goals and three assists during the postseason run that broke the Rangers’ 54-year Stanley Cup drought.Following seven forgettable seasons in Oakland, Brosius found a forever home in The Bronx.Brosius, who hit .203 with a .576 OPS in 1997, became an All-Star with the Yankees in 1998, hitting .300 with 19 home runs and 98 RBIs before batting .383 in the postseason and becoming World Series MVP on one of the greatest teams of all time.

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